2/20/2023 0 Comments Cirkus animation studiopremieres of two new digital restorations: Trnka’s Venice Film Festival prize-winning first feature The Czech Year and Old Czech Legends, a breathtaking collection of Bohemian myths. This essential series will present all 24 of the artist’s films, including 11 newly translated works and the U.S. With his puppet animation studio, founded in 1946, he helped lay the groundwork for Czech animation predominance alongside stop-motion animation masters Karel Zeman, Hermina Tyrlova, Jan Svankmajer, and Jiri Barta. Trnka’s body of work as a director - 18 short and six feature-length animated films in total - was rivaled only by Walt Disney Studios in output and brought him international acclaim, from Cannes to Venice and beyond. Already a prolific artist, author, and beloved book illustrator in his country, Trnka made films that had enormous impact on the development of Czech animation, and he inspired the careers of generations of filmmakers and animators around the globe. The director’s approach to puppet film as a serious art form was borne out of the lively Czech puppet theater tradition, which helped preserve the language over centuries of Hapsburg rule when there were no Czech schools, theater, or books published in the language. Revered as the pioneer of a remarkable new genre of animation that utilized puppets, Trnka conveyed the drama and psychology of his characters through his figures’ body language, expressive lighting, and camera movement. retrospective of the works of Czech animation master Jiri Trnka (1912-1969), April 20-25. The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Comeback Company announce The Puppet Master: The Complete Jiri Trnka, the first complete U.S. “Trnka-the name is the sum of childhood and poetry.” -Jean Cocteau
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